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In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

Ethics reform is about restoring the public trust. When that is in doubt, nothing is more important than restoring it.

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.

Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.

There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

I would like this to be a new day. I would hope now that we can focus on doing the people's business.

From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives.

So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.